Address: 3305 Pasadena Ave Los Angeles (Lincoln Heights)
Year: 1976
Former Name: Leval of California, Inc
Current Name: Leval
This past Saturday, I woke up early in order to get a head start on the long weekend and quickly get some errands out of the way. I drove down to the huge Goodwill donation center on San Fernando rd. to drop off an entire car load of junk clothes and other things. The center is near my old old neighborhood in Lincoln Heights, which is why I'm somewhat familiar with it. Anyhow, as I drove down Pasadena Ave, I realized one of my grandma's workplaces from the '76 stack was located close by.
After I unloaded the car and collected my receipt, I drove back on Pasadena Ave looking for this place. Unlike Downtown L.A., I wasn't too familiar with the area since my family moved away when I was 5 years old. I had no idea what type of building I was looking for. It was a bit strange to drive past the old church where my teenaged parents met. It was even stranger to discover my grandma worked just one block down from that church. I parked and walked up to the one story building where I heard the buzz of sewing machines hard at work. But that wasn't 3305. I walked over about half a block and I was very surprised to see the name on the 1976 document still matched name on the door. The door was closed so it may also have been shut down fairly recently.
According to the document, my grandma's time there was very short. Although, it doesn't matter to me whether she was at a specific place for a few weeks or a few years. It's still a part of her past and a part of the trail that I'm trying to piece together and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what's next.
